Index Code:

FAS–MIN–PET

Orgin:

Saigon, Vietnam / New York, USA

Field Notes:

structure as intimacy · discipline as emotion · light as edge · restraint as dialogue · tailoring as emotion · clarity as connection

Defining Moment:

Spring 2024 — Debut at Helmut Lang; 90s clarity rewritten as community

Peter Do

(

2018 – present

)

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Do carries minimalism into a new century.

At Helmut Lang, he transforms restraint into conversation — clean lines charged with intimacy, tailoring softened by emotion.

His world refines the codes of 1990s modernism into a language of belonging, where silence no longer isolates but connects.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Peter Do’s work, this approach appears where proportion calibrates the body.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Peter Do’s work, this approach appears where proportion calibrates the body.

Hard Systems

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Fashion

Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Peter Do

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Position

Body as Measure

Observartory

In Dialogue

Peter Do

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Position

Body as Measure

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue